Beyond the Highland Line: Highland History and CultureConstable, 1991 - 236 pagini An historical and cultural guide to the Scottish Highlands, embracing the early Pictish inhabitants up to the present day. The author examines such topics as the history of the clans, depopulation and emigration, the tourist trade, and highland ecology. |
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... Tartan clothes : Flora MacDonald wearing a tartan dress of fashionable cut . ( National Galleries of Scotland ) Neil Gow , the Highland fiddler , wearing tartan breeches and stockings . He is shown similarly dressed , playing the fiddle ...
... Tartan clothes : Flora MacDonald wearing a tartan dress of fashionable cut . ( National Galleries of Scotland ) Neil Gow , the Highland fiddler , wearing tartan breeches and stockings . He is shown similarly dressed , playing the fiddle ...
Pagina 116
... tartan cloak . In the mid - eighteenth century Flora MacDonald was portrayed in a red tartan dress of fashionable cut , with elegant beribboned bodice and slashed sleeves . In the eighteenth century Highland women who did not attempt to ...
... tartan cloak . In the mid - eighteenth century Flora MacDonald was portrayed in a red tartan dress of fashionable cut , with elegant beribboned bodice and slashed sleeves . In the eighteenth century Highland women who did not attempt to ...
Pagina 182
... tartan invented in the middle of the nineteenth has gained a respectable antiquity . Much of the tartan woven to be worn in honour of George IV's state visit had been made by the firm of Wilson of Bannockburn , Stirlingshire , an old ...
... tartan invented in the middle of the nineteenth has gained a respectable antiquity . Much of the tartan woven to be worn in honour of George IV's state visit had been made by the firm of Wilson of Bannockburn , Stirlingshire , an old ...
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Illustrations | 9 |
Picts and Scots | 35 |
Gael Norse and Norman | 52 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
Alasdair Alasdair MacColla Alexander ancient Angus Óg Argyll army Balliol battle became best-dressed Highlander Bishop Caledonians Campbell cattle Celtic Celts chiefs Christian Church Clan Donald clansmen crofters crown Dalriada David defeated descendants drovers Duke Earl earldom Edinburgh eighteenth century England English feudal followed Gaelic Gaels Glen Gordon Gordon Donaldson Grant and Cheape Hebrides Highland dress Highland Line Highland regiments Highlands and Islands History I.F. Grant Ibid Inverness Iona Ireland Irish Islay Jacobite Jacobite Rising James VI James VII John kilt kindred King of Scots kingdom Kintyre land later Loch Lord Lordship Lowland MacDonald MacGregor MacKenzies MacPherson Malcolm Malcolm MacHeth Mór Moray nineteenth century Norse Orkney Ossian Pictish Picts plaid poem possession Prince Charles Edward Queen Roman Ross royal Scotland Scottish sheep Skye society Somerled Statutes of Iona Stewart stone Stuart survived Sutherland symbols tartan tenants tradition victory warriors Western Isles